We’re live at Affiliate Summit West 2014 today in Vegas. We’ll be covering everything Affiliate Marketing, SEO, PPC and Social at the conference.  Myself @johnrampton and @murraynewlands will be here doing interviews if you’d like to meetup.

Niche search engine DuckDuckGo announced it served more than 1 billion queries in 2013. Spikes in traffic occurred around the time the NSA surveillance scandal broke, catapulting traffic on the “anonymous search” engine around May of last year.

In an interview published by Irish Independent, Irish airlines Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary claims his airline has entered a partnership with Google, and is providing the search engine with flight pricing to help build a travel search and comparison tool. “We’ll be sharing the…

We all know social media is a hugely valuable element of online marketing when it comes to building a customer base, search engine rankings, and brand recognition. As a major player, Twitter is one of the most important and popular social media networks frequented by users around the globe. Obtaining a high number of followers is […] Author information Megan Marrs Megan Marrs is a blogger and copywriter at WordStream, where she writes for the marketing department.

On Friday, I broke the news that Google changed their link schemes guidelines on widget links. In short…

Twitter has made headlines in recent weeks with the quiet launch of its experimental Nearby timeline, which allows eligible mobile users to discover tweets posted by others in their immediate vicinity, regardless of whether they are following them. This feature is currently available to a select… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

While organic search is still a critical channel for connecting consumers seeking solutions with the brands that offer them, Google seems to be slowly but surely displacing organic content with ads and it’s own content as well as removing any cause / effect signals for optimizing natural search placement. These changes have driven more companies to PPC and social . The promise of social media has drawn huge investments from companies and brands of all sizes, and yet social networks like Facebook are making organic visibility the Yeti of the social media world.

You’re about to learn a specific mind-blowing linking tactic that’s perfectly suited for almost any website. If you’re considering a link building campaign, following Google’s lead is a good place to start. Here’s how to link “Google style.”

Bing now appears to be supporting secure search through the https://www.bing.com address. Previously, trying to use this address generated an error.

I live in a double bubble when it comes to my perceptions of how “America” uses the Internet. The first bubble I live in is Silicon Valley, where the latest venture-funded “SoMoLo” website always seems more important than, say, WalMart.com